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Articles 15221 through 15320 of 25647:
- The Bjp's Game Plan In U.P. (Hindu, Zoya Hasan, Jan 08, 2002)
The intertwined issue of temple and terror is designed to redirect the electorate's attentions from the problems of governance and economic development.
- Agenda For Agricultural Reforms (Business Line, S. D. Naik, Jan 08, 2002)
AGRICULTURE continues to remain the most important sector of the economy from the perspective of employment generation and poverty alleviation and also because of its causal links with the factor and product markets.
- Budget As A Binding National Covenant (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Jan 08, 2002)
IT IS Budget time again. The defining moment has arrived for the Finance Minister, Mr Yashwant Sinha. His luck will run out if he does not get his sums right this time.
- The Military And The Militants (Telegraph, Sudhir Kumar Mishra, Jan 08, 2002)
The attack on Parliament might appear to have brought comrades with the same goals in power politics onto a common platform.
- Terrorism: The Two Faces Of Us (Business Line, B. Raman , Jan 08, 2002)
IN THE early 1980s, Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) had handed over to a group of Sikh terrorists, who had hijacked a plane of the Indian Airlines (IAC).
- Euro’s Popularity Caught Between Cautious Brown And Impatient Blair (The Financial Express, N. Madhavan, Jan 08, 2002)
If initial euphoria is anything to go by, the successful launch of euro notes and coins may in fact catalyse the United Kigdom’s decision on whether to retain its popular pound sterling or give it up.
- Afghan War Gives Us A Chance To Hunker Down In Muslim World (Indian Express, William M. Arkin, Jan 08, 2002)
Behind a veil of secret agreements, the US is creating a ring of new and expanded military bases that encircle Afghanistan and enhance the armed forces greater ability to strike targets throughout much of the Muslim world.
- A Hand Of Friendship And After (Hindu, K. K. Katyal , Jan 08, 2002)
KATHMANDU, JAN. 7. That the India-Pakistan tensions would dominate last week's SAARC summit was expected but what form it would take was not clear.
- Bush Trades Texas Peace For Battle On Economy (The Financial Express, Patricia Wilson Crawford, Jan 08, 2002)
TEXAS: After 12 days in the pastoral privacy of his Texas ranch, US President George W Bush on Monday was heading for Washington and the public rough-and-tumble of an election-year debate on the economy.
- Why India Must Get Into The Equine Race (Business Line, Anil Mukhi, Jan 08, 2002)
A COUPLE of weeks ago, a momentous event took place. An Indian- bred horse, Saddle Up, became the first thoroughbred racehorse born and reared in this country to participate in an international Group 1 horse race, the pinnacle of equine achievement.
- Get The Arms For The Man (Telegraph, BRIJESH D. JAYAL, Jan 08, 2002)
As war cries once again reverberate across the sub continent, one cannot help but ponder over the state of preparedness of our armed forces.
- Why India Must Get Into The Equine Race (Business Line, Anil Mukhi, Jan 08, 2002)
A COUPLE of weeks ago, a momentous event took place. An Indian- bred horse, Saddle Up, became the first thoroughbred racehorse born and reared in this country to participate in an international Group 1 horse race, the pinnacle of equine achievement.
- Qualcomm To Pick Up Stake In Reliance Telecom Venture (Business Line, G. Rambabu, Jan 08, 2002)
RELIANCE has finalised a multi-million dollar deal with technology major Qualcomm Inc, whereby the US-based pioneer of CDMA technology would pick up strategic equity stake in its telecom venture, Reliance Communications Ltd.
- Agenda For Agricultural Reforms (Business Line, S. D. Naik, Jan 08, 2002)
AGRICULTURE continues to remain the most important sector of the economy from the perspective of employment generation and poverty alleviation and also because of its causal links with the factor and product markets.
- Wah Taj (Indian Express, Monirupa Bhattacharya, Jan 08, 2002)
So you see the Taj Mahal everyday?’’ People have often asked me this question on learning that I belonged to the city of Taj.
- Budget As A Binding National Covenant (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Jan 08, 2002)
IT IS Budget time again. The defining moment has arrived for the Finance Minister, Mr Yashwant Sinha.
- Us Afghan Envoy To Land In Delhi (Indian Express, Jyoti Malhotra, Jan 08, 2002)
President George Bush will be sending his special assistant to South-West Asia and Middle East and envoy to Afghanistan, Zalmay Khalilzad, to New Delhi on January 16-17.
- Frozen Frame (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jan 08, 2002)
It is too early to say if the tension between India and Pakistan has been reduced after the recent summit of the south Asian association for regional cooperation at Kathmandu.
- Want It Experience? Well, Pay Up Buddy (Business Line, Bharat Kumar, Jan 08, 2002)
A FREEZE on recruitments resulting from cost cutting is often the prime challenge to a company aspiring to build software products. So what do you do? Simple: Make programmers pay you for the experience they gain in building a product.
- Limited By Law (Indian Express, Anil Divan, Jan 08, 2002)
Over 50 years of the working of the Constitution have brought about a radical change in our democratic institutions. There is a steep fall in the values of public men.
- Thinking Again About Rape (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jan 08, 2002)
Under an order dated August 9, 1999 made in Writ Petition (Crl) No.33 of 1997, the Supreme Court of India requested the Law Commission “to examine the issues raised by the petitioners.
- Terrorism: The Two Faces Of Us (Business Line, B. Raman , Jan 08, 2002)
IN THE early 1980s, Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) had handed over to a group of Sikh terrorists, who had hijacked a plane of the Indian Airlines (IAC).
- Why Flog A Dead Nam? (Indian Express, Subramaniam Narasimhan, Jan 08, 2002)
This is apropos of recent columns invoking the ‘glorious days of the Non Aligned Movement’ by Kuldip Nayar and Mani Shankar Aiyar in this paper. Messrs Nayar and Aiyar, both members of Parliament, are excellent men of letters.
- Tax Consumption, Not Income (Indian Express, Bharat Jhunjhunwala, Jan 08, 2002)
Finance Minister Yashwant Sinha believes in increasing income tax because that is more equitable.
- Attack On Parliament (Business Line, Subhash Chandra Agrawal, Jan 08, 2002)
The terrorist attack on Parliament was also partially due to the craze of MPs and VVIPs to show off. This includes using the red light on their cars and bypassing metal-detectors.
- Resume The Dialogue (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jan 07, 2002)
THE `INFORMAL MEETING' that the leaders of India and Pakistan have engaged in with a flourish of statesmanship during the latest South Asian summit in Kathmandu assumes a salience beyond the compulsions.
- Domestic Agenda For India (The Financial Express, Pradeep Mehta, Jan 07, 2002)
• Need to set up/strengthen a fully equipped patent systems which will deal with the registration of IPRs such as patents, copy rights.
- Taking Out The Taliban - I (Hindu, Gail Omvedt , Jan 07, 2002)
There is not, and never has been, a government in the world which would not at least take police action to defend its people... At the same time, I thought there would be no bombing.
- Peace Is The Only Option (Hindu, Kalpana Sharma , Jan 07, 2002)
Let our leaders remember that their job as politicians is to find political solutions to intractable problems.
- Time-Out For Reforms (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jan 07, 2002)
IN A WAY, the Cabinet Committee on Reforms, under the chairmanship of the Prime Minister, A. B. Vajpayee, has its task cut out on more than one front.
- Resume The Dialogue (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jan 07, 2002)
THE `INFORMAL MEETING' that the leaders of India and Pakistan have engaged in with a flourish of statesmanship during the latest South Asian summit in Kathmandu assumes a salience beyond the compulsions.
- He Was Isro's Guiding Force (Hindu, Yash Pal, Jan 07, 2002)
He left us quietly, with dignity, without any noise and without any fuss. Satish was a great man who always stood back when the floodlights were on.
- Out On Dolly’s Limb (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jan 07, 2002)
Dolly the Sheep has arthritis. And once again all’s not quite well in our brave new world.
- Preparing For Net Future (Business Line, A. M. Sakkthivel, Jan 07, 2002)
E-COMMERCE is an evolving mantra every citizen of global business must chant to keep with it.
- Disinvestment To The Rescue? (Business Line, Amit Mitra, Jan 07, 2002)
CAN the disinvestment of Government holdings in public sector shipyards be the panacea for the ailing shipbuilding industry? This question is now haunting many in shipbuilding circles.
- Blair Lauds Ap On Tech Initiatives -- Inaugurates Centre For Good Governance (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Jan 07, 2002)
THE British Prime Minister, Mr Tony Blair, on Sunday inaugurated the first-of-its-kind Centre for Good Governance (CCG), which is being positioned as a centre of excellence for the State, country and the region.
- Imf: It's Monetary Fratricide! (Business Line, Alex Abraham, Jan 07, 2002)
WHEN the International Monetary Fund (IMF) was established many years ago, its founding fathers enshrined within its constitution great and noble ideals and intentions.
- 2001: A Year Of Maturity For Hp (Business Line, Vipin Kumar, Jan 07, 2002)
SALES managers are accustomed to handling new product/brand launches all the time.
- Eyewash, Whitewash... (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Jan 07, 2002)
OR hogwash? That is the question in one's mind on reading the report of Reuters that a `peer review' by Deloitte & Touche, an accounting firm in the Big Five league, has given a "clean bill of health" to Anderson.
- War Is A Chilling Word (Indian Express, Ajey Lele, Jan 07, 2002)
In 1941, the Germans saw a defeat at Moscow because of the terrible Russian winter.
- ‘Our Know-How About Lca Avionics Is Very High, We Don’t Need Outside Help’ (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jan 07, 2002)
The US-led war on Afghanistan has once again proven the importance of air power in modern warfare.
- Strike Of Irrelevance (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Jan 07, 2002)
A MORBID FEAR of increasingly getting irrelevant alone can explain Friday's strike by bank unions as the labour dispute at Standard Chartered Bank did not merit the shutdown of the entire banking system.
- Saarc Snapshots (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jan 07, 2002)
The Eleventh SAARC Summit proved yet again that it is India and Pakistan, and the tortured relationship between the two nations, that continues to set the South Asian agenda.
- After The Expose (Indian Express, Tarun J Tejpal, Jan 07, 2002)
In my 18 years in journalism, had I spent more time hanging around with politicians, and less with other kinds of achievers, I would have known better.
- Complexities, Contradictions (Hindu, K. K. Katyal , Jan 07, 2002)
KATHMANDU, JAN. 6. The heights of Nepal provide a perfect view of the political panorama of South Asia, with all its details - its charming characteristics as also its complexities and contradictions.
- Because Mrs G Didn’t Bargain (Indian Express, ARVIND KALA, Jan 07, 2002)
India’s biggest defence and foreign policy blunder was committed by Mrs Indira Gandhi after the 1971 Bangladesh war.
- Making It With Dolly (Telegraph, Indranil Basu, Jan 07, 2002)
From gene therapy to genetically modified foods, issues involving DNA evoke ethical rhetoric and fiercely polarized opinions.
- King Solomon’s Mind (Indian Express, Renuka Narayanan, Jan 07, 2002)
Enshrined in the heart of the Old Testament, is a jewelled cluster comprising, in order, Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes and the Song of Solomon. They are numbers nineteen to twenty two in the thirty nine sections of that grand old book.
- Lessons In Disaster Management (The Financial Express, HUMA SIDDQUI, Jan 07, 2002)
It's nearly one year since one of the worst ever earthquakes rocked Gujarat. Relief work is still on. The progress report on the education front is impressive, though.
- Us-64 Nav-Repurchase Price Difference -- Budgetary Grant For Uti To Bridge Gap (Business Line, Shaji Vikraman , Jan 07, 2002)
The bail-out cost to the Government for the next fiscal could work out to around Rs 6,400 crore, assuming that the net asset value of US-64 stays at the current level of Rs 6.21 in May 2003.
- Shipping Corporation Of India -- What Will The Strategic Sale Really Achieve? (Business Line, N. K. Kurup, Jan 07, 2002)
The Government has finally decided on the strategic sale of 51 per cent of the Shipping Corporation of India's equity, with foreign bidders allowed as long as an Indian partner picks up a higher stake.
- Mr Yen Revisits The South Asian Crisis (Business Line, S. Venkitaramanan , Jan 07, 2002)
As long as a financial crisis remains limited to one country or region, unaffected countries, particularly those at the centre.
- Taking Out The Taliban - I (Hindu, Gail Omvedt , Jan 07, 2002)
There is not, and never has been, a government in the world which would not at least take police action to defend its people... At the same time, I thought there would be no bombing.
- Time-Out For Reforms (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jan 07, 2002)
IN A WAY, the Cabinet Committee on Reforms, under the chairmanship of the Prime Minister, A. B. Vajpayee, has its task cut out on more than one front.
- Peace Is The Only Option (Hindu, Kalpana Sharma , Jan 07, 2002)
Let our leaders remember that their job as politicians is to find political solutions to intractable problems.
- He Was Isro's Guiding Force (Hindu, Yash Pal, Jan 07, 2002)
He left us quietly, with dignity, without any noise and without any fuss. Satish was a great man who always stood back when the floodlights were on.
- Complexities, Contradictions (Hindu, K. K. Katyal , Jan 07, 2002)
KATHMANDU, JAN. 6. The heights of Nepal provide a perfect view of the political panorama of South Asia, with all its details - its charming characteristics as also its complexities and contradictions.
- Strike Of Irrelevance (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Jan 07, 2002)
A MORBID FEAR of increasingly getting irrelevant alone can explain Friday's strike by bank unions as the labour dispute at Standard Chartered Bank did not merit the shutdown of the entire banking system.
- Imf: It's Monetary Fratricide! (Business Line, Alex Abraham, Jan 07, 2002)
WHEN the International Monetary Fund (IMF) was established many years ago, its founding fathers enshrined within its constitution great and noble ideals and intentions.
- Gold Begins 2002 On Firm Note (Business Line, G. Chandrashekhar, Jan 07, 2002)
GOLD has begun the year firm, if a little lethargic_holding largely in a tight $2 range, with a median of $ 278 an ounce. Good bidding interest was reported on price dips, with some option activity at higher price levels for later this year.
- The Calm Before A Storm (Hindu, KESAVA MENON, Jan 06, 2002)
For a fortnight in December, it seemed that the dialogue between the Israelis and the Palestinians was dead and buried... But now the two sides are back to jockeying for advantage.
- Sparring At Saarc (Hindu, C. Raja Mohan, Jan 06, 2002)
KATHMANDU, JAN. 5. India was not surprised at the dramatic public relations exercise by the President of Pakistan, Pervez Musharraf, at the Summit of the South Asian leaders here today.
- The Calm Before A Storm (Hindu, KESAVA MENON, Jan 06, 2002)
For a fortnight in December, it seemed that the dialogue between the Israelis and the Palestinians was dead and buried... But now the two sides are back to jockeying for advantage.
- War At What Cost? (Hindu, ALOK MUKHERJEE, Jan 06, 2002)
The Indian economy can no doubt survive a war, but the sacrifices it will have to make in terms of development will be substantial.
- Refugees In Their Own Land (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jan 06, 2002)
For the people along the border in Jammu and Kashmir, Punjab and Rajasthan, the war clouds have cast a shadow on their lives. Shujaat Bukhari, Sarabjit Pandher and Sunny Sebastian report.
- Sparring At Saarc (Hindu, C. Raja Mohan, Jan 06, 2002)
KATHMANDU, JAN. 5. India was not surprised at the dramatic public relations exercise by the President of Pakistan, Pervez Musharraf, at the Summit of the South Asian leaders here today.
- Capital Punishment (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jan 06, 2002)
When the British first came to India in the 17th century, Bengal was one of the first places they came to trade and to set up their “factories’’ (warehouses in the jargon of the time).
- Tapping Discontent (Hindu, Hasan Suroor, Jan 06, 2002)
The shoe-bomber's case has focussed attention on an apparently widespread campaign by Muslim extremists in Britain to recruit socially maladjusted youth.
- Where There Is No Will (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jan 06, 2002)
Even the Maoists seem to pose less of a problem. For Nepal, the SAARC summit is proving to be a nightmare.
- War At What Cost? (Hindu, ALOK MUKHERJEE, Jan 06, 2002)
The Indian economy can no doubt survive a war, but the sacrifices it will have to make in terms of development will be substantial.
- Refugees In Their Own Land (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jan 06, 2002)
For the people along the border in Jammu and Kashmir, Punjab and Rajasthan, the war clouds have cast a shadow on their lives. Shujaat Bukhari, Sarabjit Pandher and Sunny Sebastian report.
- The Comfort Of Sameness (Telegraph, MUKUL KESAVAN, Jan 06, 2002)
If you subtract Russia from it, Europe is a sub-continent roughly the same size as British India.
- Coloured Views (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jan 06, 2002)
The Congress HQ might witness a different colour soon.
- Forensic Justice And Aids (Hindu, V. R. Krishna Iyer , Jan 05, 2002)
India, like South Africa, has, high on its health agenda, the pathology of HIV and AIDS. So human rights are in jeopardy and, vis-a-vis jural relief, judicial obscurantism is forensic folly, the vanishing point of curial vigilance.
- Microcredit: Globalisation Unlimited (Business Line, Sudhirendar Sharma, Jan 05, 2002)
IT is a two-edged sword. While it supposedly takes the rural poor into a new domain of economic freedom, it keeps the corporate sector hopeful of exploiting this freedom.
- All Houses Are Not Equal (Business Line, S. Murlidharan , Jan 05, 2002)
AS IT is, there is a uniform tax-free limit of Rs 50,000 applicable across the board to, among others, all individuals.
- $10-M Norm For Fdi In Realty (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Jan 05, 2002)
THE Government today announced a $10-million minimum capitalisation norm along with a three-year lock-in period for 100 per cent foreign direct investment (FDI) in the development of integrated townships.
- Resurrecting Afghanistan (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jan 05, 2002)
Afghanistan has suffered heavily as the object and subject of great power politics, internecine war and destruction of everything civilised, mostly due to Pakistan’s atavistic policies for nearly three decades.
- All Houses Are Not Equal (Business Line, S. Murlidharan , Jan 05, 2002)
AS IT is, there is a uniform tax-free limit of Rs 50,000 applicable across the board to, among others, all individuals.
- Globalisation And Decentralisation (Hindu, Supriya Roy Chowdhury, Jan 05, 2002)
Where existing structures of inequality are left intact and become compounded with the disadvantages of marketisation, political empowerment is a useful slogan, not a realistic or genuine goal.
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